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… The Science The first step in the deadly dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a “head-tail” morphology, this means using proteins … injection of mutations in a particular gene might boost an organism’s fitness. Moreover, the discovery of more than …

… Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility, Keedrian Olmstead was back on campus at the University of California, Merced to start … instructions for building and maintaining cells through the use of deep-sequencing technologies. The internship program …

… boggy wetlands produces an estimated 5% of annual greenhouse gas emissions. Understanding how sphagnum, a primary … their role as carbon sources. Summary Sphagnum, a genus of just under 400 mosses that can carry up to 25 times their dry … no. 10.46936/10.25585/60001030) (A.J.S.) conducted by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute ( …

… The Impact Traditional methods for breaking down biomass use aerobic methods (those using oxygen) to remove lignin and transform the remaining … biomass production and bioproduct engineering. Summary That organisms make use of cellulose and hemicellulose is … grants W911NF-09–D-0001 and W911NF-19-2-0026 (MAO), US Army Research Office contract W911NF-19-1-0010 (MAO), …

… the lead of the infrastructure team and the chair of the Cluster Advisory Group (CAG), he sees his role as using the substrate provided by LBNL, where possible, and … JGI compute infrastructure is managed, through the Cluster Advisory Group composed of representatives from JGI’s …

… CheckV can help researchers assess virus sequence fragments and data quality. The Science Through … technologies and computational approaches, more and more virus sequences are being recovered and identified from … completeness and removal of contamination from the host organism. As reported in Nature Biotechnology , a team from …

… between the JGI and the information technology company Truss has resulted in the JGI Data Portal , a pilot download … processes from the other JGI Portals, as well. “For thousands of scientists around the world, the JGI Genome Portal … scientists to search for specific types of data across organisms, enabling them to conduct more complex types of …

… vents are ocean-floor openings in the Earth’s crust that emit hot, mineral-rich water. These vents are too … sunlight, and yet they still support a unique array of microorganisms adapted to living in extreme conditions. At these … be applied to biotechnology and medicine. A more robust understanding of these microbial communities could lead …

… Monitoring Inter-Organism Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest portfolio of … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … of 50 letters of intent submitted. Many of the proposals focus on harnessing genomics to developing sustainable …

… to right are: [Above] Sara Branco, Asdrubal Burgos, Posy Busby, Hao Chen, Jay Chen, Maureen Coleman and Hugh Cross; [Below] Zac Freedman, Martin Jonikas, Lotus Lofgren, Fumito Maruyama, Lauren Stadler, Tingting Xiang … innovation through genomic discovery across diverse organisms and ecosystems. Scientists are engineering …

… In our warming world, we’ll need corn, sorghum and other crops to grow well in worse conditions: … from grasses into other crops.  One grass they studied just happened to be the same species that covered World Cup …

… from Walnut Creek to the heart of the Berkeley Lab campus. By Friday, October 18, the production sequencing labs in … home located in the heart of the Berkeley Lab main campus. On Monday, November 11, a week after they’d been  moved … asked to “KonMari” their spaces, a decluttering method focused on keeping only items that bring joy (and are necessary …